Art For Sale: When Cancer Hits

I heard from photographer highcastle a few months back. He’d become a friend since our interview back in 2012 and since then we’ve checked in with each other every so often to talk art and our upcoming projects.

He was in the middle of trying to make his way back home to Texas. This wasn’t his usual travels for photography, it was a trip to see his father who had fallen into a coma. There was liver failure. Kidney failure.

He left his dad under the care of his mom, and went back to New York. News came back later that now his mother was sick. Cancer.

‘Doctors found a tumor in her uterus the size of a grapefruit. The good news, if you can call it that, is that a hysterectomy, which is scheduled for October 24th, is stage 2 and isn’t considered fatal. Doctors are fairly certain that the cancer hasn’t spread and that she should recover.

I am asking anyone who can empathize and who can give to donate whatever they can to ensure that my parents, who between the two live on about $1,000 a month from my mother’s disability income, don’t sink farther in the hole financially.

Every penny you donate will go directly to my parents and my mother’s healthcare needs. Our other concern is that my mother, who will take anywhere from six weeks to six months to recover from this surgery, will not be able to adequately care for my father, who still struggles in the aftermath of his systematic liver and kidney failure.’